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These boys are half Silkie and half Wyandotte OR half Silkie and half mutt. Good temperaments, usually sweet when handled but some are a little flighty to catch. I also have a pretty black one with a white head and neck, along with a few others not pictured. They are medium-small in size, around...

I’m planning on exhibiting my first birds(Silkies) at the Monroe, Georgia, show on October 20th. I am super excited, but this will only be the second show I’ve ever attended, and though I’ve read so much about showing, I still have a few questions. Show questions: #1 Are hens and pullets...

On Sunday (the 23rd) I noticed my almost four-week old Partridge Silkie baby "Nutmeg" was holding his mouth open, and it looked like he had something stuck in it, like a piece of wood mulch or mud. When I caught him (He lives outside with his mom, dad, "uncle", and "aunt") I tried to get it out...

A week or so ago I noticed my 8-9 month old Silkie cockerel had lost a LOT of weight. He lives in a coop with two other Silkie cockerels and three hens. He is a bit more skittish than the other birds and I thought originally that the other boys were just bullying him away from the food. I did...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew if this vitamin e-oil product would be safe for me to give to my birds? http://www.drugstore.com/natures-bounty-natural-vitamin-e-oil-30000-iu/qxp16981 The reason I'm asking is because I have a cockerel (8-9 months old) who lost a lot of weight, but is...

Last week I lost my 23-25 week old Silkie pullet, Allison, after a three-week battle with what I originally thought was Coccidiosis. Her first symptoms were decreased appetite, uneven gait, and droopy wings. It took me 3 days to figure out that it was most likely Cocci, and then I bought some...

My Partridge Silkie pullet, Allison, has been sick for about two weeks. She is about 23-24 weeks old and I bought her two months ago at the Newnan poultry show along with a Partridge cockerel and White cockerel. She started showing signs of sickness on the 15th, wings drooping, staggering...

In a pen I have 2 peacocks, 1 peahen, 2 guinea cocks, and 1 guinea hen. The guinea hen started laying about two weeks ago, but we were still waiting for Iris (Peahen) to lay her first egg(She's 2 yrs old now). About a week ago (give or take) we got a guinea egg and another egg from that pen. The...

I realized yesterday that my Partridge Silkie pullet(4-5 months old) is having trouble seeing through all her crest and beard fluff. When I got her, about two months ago, she could see fine. I've been taking her out in my garden several times a week but she'd never really move around much, and I...

I'm planning on getting into showing my birds soon, and there is an upcoming show which I requested a show catalog for (and received) but I have a question about the entry form. I understand most of it, it's pretty basic, but one little thing would be this: is "type" considered LF/Bantam here...

Just wanted to share a few pics of my peafowl from about two weeks ago. I need to go get more recent photos, though :) Oscar on left and Stanley on right Stanley Oscar on right, Stanley on left Our hen, Iris. Here is a picture of Stanley back in June of this year. It's a blurry...

Hi, my 6 year old Columbian Wyandotte roo has a really bad infestation of what I think are lice. After I picked him up this morning I noticed he seemed to weigh a bit less than normal and his breastbone seemed on the barer side(flesh wise). I thought for a second that he might have mites so I...

We have pearl, white, and lavender guineas, and I've been breeding & raising them for about 4-5 years now. We hatch about 30-60ish a year, but never before have I hatched and raised any that look like this yet. We have chickens as well and normally let them share in the hatching part. Normally...

Does anyone have experience with housing the two together? We have 2 peacocks and 1 peahen in a separate pen from the rest of our flock (chickens and guineas), and I normally just let the guineas free range with the chickens but I have 3 guineas (1 cock 2 hens I believe) that I would like to...

So I bought about 5 Silkie eggs from a guy who lives about an hour away from me, and I assumed that he kept his chickens separated(he raises many breeds, he said) by breed and color. Well I guess I should have asked, because out of 5 eggs I got 2 black, fluffy, normal looking Silkie chicks, and...

Hey all. This is the first group of Silkie chicks that I hatched myself, second group overall. My first group came from a hatchery. So I'm not very good at determining Silkie genders yet, although I know they can be hard to tell anyway; but I thought I'd give y'all the challenge of helping me...

I had a hatch due today but most of the eggs started pipping Wednesday & yesterday and 17 hatched between yesterday and this morning. Late last night a chick of mixed breed hatched and it had something hanging onto or coming out of it's bottom. The thing was very red and NOT his cord. It kinda...

Hi all, I've got a question for you! Have any of you tried letting your incubator eggs have a "breather" every day/every other day? Basically just take the lid of the incubator off for 10 minutes or so to let them cool down and get a lot of fresh air.(in a tabletop model) In past hatches I've...

Hi guys! I'm so excited and nervous at the same time! I have 17 cjexotic Silkie eggs and 12 of my own Buttercup eggs in the incubator on day 21 and I have 2 pips. The first was #9 Buttercup egg and the second the buff Silkie egg from CJ. My temp is a little low (has been a little low since I...

Well, a couple days ago I found a poo which appeared to have 2 small, white, round worms in it. They weren't moving though so I'm not 100% sure if they were worms or not, and I haven't seen any more yet. I have never noticed worms in my flock before (and I do check poo's often), and the hen this...